5 Things That Need to be in the Next Alien Game

gamrReview's Jake Weston: "The Alien film franchise is back in the news, thanks to the recent announcement that District 9 and Elysium writer/director Neil Blomkamp will be reinvigorating the series with his own take on it.

For many, this is the best news to happen to Alien in nearly 30 years. For some of us, however, this is the best news to happen to Alien since last October, when Alien: Isolation came out and impressed everyone with its adherence to the original 1979 Alien and its terrifying yet satisfying survival horror gameplay. So, with all eyes on Alien at the moment, let’s take this time talk about what Alien: Isolation did right, and where things should go for a prospective sequel."

[Relientk77]

Alien Queen, nest/eggs (from Aliens)

[MrSwankSinatra]

Don't expect to see another Alien game from Creative Assembly because SEGA no longer has the rights to the Alien franchise.

[ABBAJESUS]

Really? I did not hear they run out of contract.

[Tsar4ever01]

I got one "Thing" to say to J. Weston at gamrReview, how bout shutting the hell up and stop being an damn ARMCHAIR games developer.

So Tired of reading gamer bloggers telling REAL devs how to design games.

[endi123]

Predator

[Tsar4ever01]

NO PREDATOR!!!

[endi123]

Why I liked the avp made last gen

[ifistbrowni]

Probably going to get thumbed down, but I think it needs to keep the single player integrity (Alien Isolation) while also adding a multiplayer mode.

A multiplayer mode structured like Evolve would be ideal. Though, Evolve sucks, I feel like 4v1 hunting an alien in the darkness of a space ship while also being hunted yourselves would be so entertaining.

Or even a 4v1 and the "1" is AI controlled and just 4 player co-op.

EDIT: Just a quick google search and it seems that Colonial Marines may have been structured like this.

[bloodybutcher]

5 aliens

[TWB]

I think it would be interesting progression if they structured next alien game like Isolation was compared to first Alien movie.

So next Alien game would offer (slightly) more action, few weapons and a possibility to kill the alien (but like Aliens 2, there would be multiple).

And by guns and action, I mean you find a gun with barely any ammo which you can use to injure one alien or try to gather more ammo so you get better chances at surviving. You could also try to lay traps and create tactics for killing an alien. To counter this, aliens could learn from past experiences (like in Isolation) and you would need more skill and tactics for taking down a single alien.

Though it should never be forced upon the player to kill a single alien (any alien outside of the plot that is) so those who like the stealth gameplay Isolation provided could keep on doing that but the possibility of injuring the alien could also help new/more casual players to get more interested about the game.

Addition of combat could also help to separate the two games from each other and give players different reasons to like the two games.